Translator aids tongue-tied travelers.(Going Places)(Online & in print)

Byline: Judy Babcock Wylie Daily Herald Correspondent

Have you ever been in another culture where you didn't know the language and had an urgent need to communicate but couldn't find the words you wanted, flipping through a foreign phrase book and getting more frustrated by the moment?

If so, CoRead, www.coread.com, has an ingenious new translator for you. Even better, you don't need to be a mechanical wizard to operate it, as you do with many electronic translators.

Called the CoRead Foreign Language Communicator, it is low-tech, easy to use, costs less than $10 and is guaranteed to provide easier understanding and interaction with people speaking …